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...with the third assault wave on Inchon and was present at the taking of Kimpo airdrome, cracked up in a jeep accident (see PRESS) and is now in a Tokyo hospital. Tokyo Bureau Chief Frank Gibney, one of the first four U.S. correspondents to hit the beach at Wolmi Island with the marines, went along with them across the Han River and into Seoul before returning to Tokyo to file copy for this week's issue. Gibney, who was injured in a Han River bridge explosion on the fourth day of the war, has been ordered home...
...pronged assault on Seoul, one from the northwest along the north bank of the Han, the other from the southeast through the industrial suburb of Yongdung, south of the river. Before the north prong could get going, a battalion under Lieut. Colonel Robert Taplett-whose outfit had stormed Wolmi Island last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 25)-had to cross the Han. Taplett's men had brought along amtracs (amphibious tractors), but the first crossing was not easy...
...pall of purple smoke hung over Inchon. Our boat passed Wolmi, seized by our third battalion earlier in the day; it seemed battered and beaten, and great beige scars lay on its green hillside...
...could see the causeway from Wolmi to Inchon now. Our marines on the little island were spitting tracers at the sea wall on which we were so soon to land. We stopped dead in the water and waited. The rocket ships cut loose, their missiles tearing into Red Beach, turning it into a whistling, howling hell. The sea wall seemed as high as the RCA Building...
...still hung from the last rocket explosions and air and ground reeked with cordite fumes. Marines were running in every direction. After a moment I caught sight of Captain Jaskilka standing straight and calmly surveying the situation. He trotted on 150 yards to a small, gutted building near the Wolmi causeway. There he met his executive officer, 1st Lieut. Gilbert R. Hershey (son of Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey). "They all got ashore fine, skipper," reported Hershey...